About the Authors

Aditya K. Gupta

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

aditya.gupta@utoronto.ca

Affiliations Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mediprobe Research Inc, London, Ontario, Canada

Tong Wang

Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mediprobe Research Inc, London, Ontario, Canada

Avantika Mann

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Mediprobe Research Inc, London, Ontario, Canada

Vincent Piguet

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Anuradha Chowdhary

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Medical Mycology Unit, Department of Microbiology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance in Fungal Pathogens, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Wayne L. Bakotic

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bako Diagnostics, Alpharetta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Authors AKG, TW, AM and AC have declared that no competing interests exist. Author VP has no personal financial ties with any pharmaceutical company. He has received honoraria for speaker and/or advisory board member roles from AbbVie, Celgene, Janssen, Kyowa Kirin Co. Ltd, LEO Pharma, Novartis, Pfizer, Sanofi, UCB, and Union Therapeutics. In his role as Department Division Director of Dermatology at the University of Toronto, VP has received departmental support in the form of unrestricted educational grants from AbbVie, Bausch Health, Celgene, Janssen, LEO Pharma, Lilly, L’Oréal, NAOS, Novartis, Pfizer, Sandoz and Sanofi in the past 36 months. Author WLB is an employee of Bako Diagnostics (Alpharetta, GA, USA).